glibc 2.3.2 and threads (fwd)
Andreas Jaeger
aj@suse.de
Tue Apr 8 18:08:00 GMT 2003
Yaroslav Popovitch <yp@sot.com> writes:
> Hi! I was checking glibc-2.3.2 source tree and did not found linuxthreads
> directory. As I understood it is separate package now.
linuxthreads was always a separate tarball that needed to be
downloaded.
> I heard that development of NGPTL is stopped and it should be replaced by
> NPTL it. Is NPTL included in glibc-2.3.2?
No, NPTL is not included in any released glibc version yet.
> Also as I understood NPTL must be supported by kernel.
Both NGPT and NPTL need kernel support. The support is in the latest
Linux 2.5.x kernels,
Andreas
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